POLITICS

The Trades Ministry will today, Friday, January 12, 2018, appear at the ongoing Parliamentary probe investigating allegations of extortion during the recently held Ghana Excellency Business Awards (GEBA). The Ministry is alleged to have charged expatriates up to $100,000 for access to President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo during the awards event. Although the Presidency has said the Trade Ministry did no ...

The Center for Progressive Governance (CenProG) received the announcement of the nomination of Martin Alamisi Amidu as Special Prosecutor with utmost shock and will like to call on Parliament to reject the president’s nominee because he is too bitter, vengeful and does not in any way reflect the independence of the office he will be holding in the event parliament ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has, for the first time, raised issues with the results of the 2016 presidential election. According to him, the election, which he lost to then candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, was marked by irregularities but the National Democratic Congress (NDC) took a decision not to contest the results. Speaking on GTV’s current affairs programme, Moomen ...

Samuel Crabbe, the suspended Second National Vice-Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has referred to about 80% of the members of the party as ‘sycophants’. According to him, most of these people are close to President Nana Akufo-Addo “…with time, they will burnout like charcoal, because it will come to a time when they will need people who can ...

The minority in Parliament say they will raise the issue of the continuous stay of the 2 ex-Gitmo detainees in the country before the house when it resumes sitting this year. Mr. Samson Ahi, opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC)Member of Parliament (MP) for Bodi Constituency told Nhyira FM in Kumasi this Wednesday. The two-year period for the stay for the ...

WAS it a “political” act for the Director-General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation to write directly to the Chief Justice to set up special courts to adjudicate cases in which people have been arrested for non-payment of TV licensing fees? The answer is yes. For a law may exist in name only, and not indeed. Good political reasons may persuade the police and other law ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has described the Akufo-Addo led administration as a government that is deceiving Ghanaians. Bernard Anim-Piesie, a member of the NDC National Communication team, who made the accusation on Dwaboase on Accra-based Power 97.9fm, stated that the current government has woefully failed to deliver on its promises. His comments come after a former Nasara Coordinator, Abubakar ...

Parliament is set to begin public hearing and a live telecast of the probe into the cash-for-seat scandal, Thursday. The five-member ad-hoc committee is to unravel the circumstances under which the Trades Ministry allegedly extorted up to $100,000 from expatriate business personalities for the organization of the expatriate business awards ceremony on December 8, 2017. The ad-hoc committee made up ...

The Information Minister, Mustapha Hamid, has said the Mahama administration sold state vehicles at least two days to the inauguration of Nana Akufo-Addo as President. Disputing claims by Former President John Mahama that he left ‘a sea of vehicles’ for the Akufo-Addo administration, Mr. Hamid said the current administration came to meet only 179 vehicles. “The vehicles that they handed ...

The Minority Leader has painted a gloomy picture of the one year anniversary of the New Patriotic Party government describing the president as a lawless leader superintending over lawless vigilante groups. According to Haruna Iddrisu the Akufo-Addo government, the most vindictive government spent the better part of its one year in office dismissing all civil and public servants perceived to ...